When I was 20, I weighed 117 lbs from about 18 months of malnutrition. There was a good while in there where I wouldn’t be able to eat for days at a time before payday. Coincidentally, that was the first time in my life I can remember my perspective changing, but I always figured it was because I was homeless.
What you just said about the pineal gland made me remember the beginning of that change taking place. All cards on the table, I have a tendency to consume a ridiculous amount of cannabis (legally), and I partake in “meditation” of the serotonin receptors every couple of weeks to a month on average. When I get past this stage, I look forward to comparing it with more traditional forms of meditation.
I do find it interesting that when I discuss spirituality with you, you tend to mention that my views reflect certain Gnostic principles. Likewise, when I speak to people with a Buddhist persuasion, they say the same.
I find it interesting because I’ve never once read a Gnostic or Buddhist text, but I’m relieved to learn that I am not alone in this line of thought.
Drugs of various types have been used and some, I think, do help the mind focus and relax and might help.
Unfortunately, most who have claimed enlightenment did not really have much to report in terms of telling me just what kind of enlightenment it was. It seems that the great teacher, their Father Complex as Jung and Freud called it, did not tell them much that they could remember.
?? You think 1st Law proves the afterlife? Death doesn’t violate 1st Law. Every animal, every insect has the spark of life. Are you arguing every one goes to an afterlife? Every ant transcends on death?
There is nothing to be afraid of, unless you happen to be a believer as then you would have to remember that god roasts most of us in hell while only a few get into heaven.
Believers should be very afraid of their god who would rather torture them without purpose instead of curing them.